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Cannabis farmers have gone from watching the federal government auction off their seized property to doing some auctioning of their own. The Oregonian reports this week on Randy Williams, owner of Fireweed Farm in Prosser, WA., who is set to auction Saturday hundreds of pounds of licit Blue Dream, Blueberry Purple Kush and One-Armed Bandit […] More »

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The trendiest cannabis strain of the last two years — Girl Scout Cookies — has taken over the TreeMed dispensary in the Excelsior District. Cookies SF has blasted TreeMed’s sub-par menu into the stratosphere, replacing it with the Dom Pérignon of cannabis. Just be prepared, the facility’s ambiance is still as shady as ever. The […] More »

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Just eight days after Oregon, Alaska and Washington DC voted to end cannabis prohibition, Nevada activists are turning in signatures to place a similar measure before voters in 2016. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports this morning that the The Coalition to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol in Nevada turned in 145,000 raw petition signatures to Clark County […] More »

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Today the head of the United Nations anti-narcotics division said legalization in four U.S. state and the country’s capitol violates international anti-drug treaties. Residents of Oregon, Alaska and Washington D.C. joined Colorado and Washington Nov. 4 in ending the failed prohibition of cannabis — replacing it with a tax and regulate scheme for adults 21 […] More »

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One of the forefather’s of modern medical marijuana, Dennis Peron, credits his time in the Vietnam War with giving him the clarity and resolve to come back home and end the war on pot. Peron founded the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club at the height of the U.S. drug war in 1991. While thousands played […] More »

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The FBI released its Uniform Crime Report for 2013 today, and finds that about one marijuana possession arrest occurred per minute last year, for a total of 609,423 arrests in 2013. America spends an estimated $3.6 billion per year on these arrests, none of which lower the availability or popularity of pot, the American Civil […] More »

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Two years after Colorado and Washington legalized cannabis for adults 21 and over, and two days after Oregon, Alaska and Washington DC joined them, Gallup finds continued national support for ending the war on marijuana users. Some 750,000 Americans will be arrested this year and the U.S. government will spend an estimated $5.4 billion per […] More »

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San Francisco-based “Uber” for medical marijuana Eaze announced the acquisition of $1.5 million in seed funding this week and a product roadmap that could one day lead to delivery via drone. Eaze founder Keith McCarty was an early employee of enterprise social networking startup Yammer, which Microsoft bought in 2012 for $1.2 billion. When the […] More »

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Alaska has become the fourth state to legalize marijuana, in another landmark vote on the 40 year-old one-trillion dollar failed war on drugs. With 65.5 percent of precincts reporting, Alaska legalization Measure 2 leads 52.3 percent to 47.7 percent. Barring a midnight barrage of no votes, Measure 2 is statistically likely to pass. Measure 2 […] More »

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Oregon voters soundly legalized marijuana Tuesday night, joining Washington and Colorado as the third legalization state. Oregon legalization Measure 71 lead 55 to 44 with more than 648,000 ballots cast Tuesday night, according to election returns. Outlets in Portland are calling the race. Measure 91 legalizes up to eight ounces of cannabis and four mature […] More »

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